OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14298376
GEORGE T. HARKINS, INC.
OCEAN CITY, MD·
Event description
Employee sustains puncture wound in fall onto rebar
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was walking on a 6 3/4 in. wide concrete wall, checking forms that h ad just been installed. He slipped, catching his tool belt on pieces of 5/8 in. #5 rebar mounted in the existing concrete floor and protruding 34 to 36 in. abov e it. The rebar passed under his tool belt and punctured the skin below the righ t side of his rib cage, creating a flesh wound 4 or 5 in. deep. The employee rem ained standing while a torch was used to cut the rebar from the concrete. He was taken to a hospital, with the section of rebar still between his right armpit a nd lower rib cage.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 34 M
- Nature of injury
- 18
- Part of body
- 5
- Event type
- 6
- Source
- 42
- Occupation code
- 567
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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